\chapter{Conclusion}
\label{chap:conclusion}
The primary goal of this report was to point out different barriers in transition of the current Internet architecture to Information-Centric architecture. Moreover we wanted to make a research about how the transition in a complex socio-technical system (Internet) is influenced by technology, society and institutions. We wanted to explain how different factors of a socio-technical system can act as a barrier in its own development. We also wanted to come up with some suggestions to how to bridge the chasm between the current Internet architecture and ICN architecture. \bigskip

\noindent We conducted our research by means of transition theory, which uses a multi-level perspective to describe different factors that affects transition in a complex socio-technical system. Moreover, we also considered institutional and innovation theory to provide more validity to our discussion. \bigskip

\noindent Through the analysis of primary and secondary data we have shown that there are of course some barriers in the transition of the Internet from host-centric architecture to Information-centric architecture. The barriers we depicted are:l ack of business incentives for further deployment, lack of proper institutional design, high collective switching cost and underdeveloped technology. The major barrier we have depicted is that the new architecture does not provide any incentives for the regime actors to bring it to the society.\bigskip

\noindent Moreover, we made reflections on how we can actually push forward the deployment of ICN. We concluded that further research is required to create some financial opportunities that act as an incentives for the business drivers to invest in the deployment of ICN. \bigskip

\noindent Finally, from a symbolic interactionism point of view, during this research we have moved from one standing-point to a new one. By this we are now re-biased and have a more profound understanding of the ICN and the complexity of the Internet. The research has been a successful learning process if we look back on our initial understanding of the innovation processes of the Internet. The transition theory provided us with some tools that certainly enabled us to elaborate on the barriers to an ICN transition.

On the other hand this topic turned out to be highly complex - possibly so complex that it pulled us in different directions and disturbed our focus. We were not capable of seeing the importance of getting data from business stakeholders such as ISPs and CDNs. Therefore, one suggestion for further research is definitely to investigate the motivations for these actors to adopt ICN. In any case, our work shows that business incentives are needed to make ICN strong enough to find its way into the existing regime. \bigskip

\noindent Thereby we have answered our research question and sub-questions.